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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:48:44 -0600
From: Jeff Harlow <jharlow AT ibm DOT net>
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Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jeff Harlow wrote:
> 
> > yeep wrote:
> > >
> > > > is left blind on a new machine.  Have you ever tried to find
> > > > PKUNZIP on someone's machine?  Mine is in C:\UTILS which is in my
> > > > path at ALL times.  Other people either don't know where it is,
> > > > or don't know what it is.
> >
> > Try dir c:\pkunzip.* /s to find all occurrences on drive C:
> 
> Assumes they only have a single drive.  Doing it on each drive
> would work, but would be a pain in the ***.

My keen sense of the obvious blinded me to the need to point out that c
can be replaced by any valid drive letter.  Thanks for correcting my
oversight.  :)

I have four DOS partitions in order to minimize my cluster size, so out
of habit I do:

dir c:\pk*.* /s <CR>
dir d <F3> <CR>
dir e <F3> <CR>
dir f <F3> <CR>

Doesn't hurt a bit.  :)

I have written batch files that use FOR loops to perform some operation
on any existing drives from C: to Z:, but haven't felt the need to do
that on my current system.

> > > Yeah!
> > > I got mine in C:\TOOLS, my friend has it in C:\DOS, my other friend puts it
> > > in C:\ZIPSTUFF, and yet another puts it simply in C:\.
> > > I had one hell of a time locating a mouse driver on a pc at school once.
> > > Who'd though it'd reside in C:\DOS\TEMP\UTILS\DRIVERS\MOUSE ??
> > >
> >
> > Try dir c:\mouse*.* /s to find all occurrences on drive C:
> 
> Assumes that the mouse driver is called "MOUSE*.*".  I've seen
> them called "GMOUSE.COM", "MS-DRV.COM", "LMOUSE.COM", etc...

Again my keen sense of the obvious tells me that everybody reading this
knows enough about wild cards, etc. to not take my suggestion too
literally.  Unless...

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."  

(uncomfortably long pause)  

"I can't do that, Dave."

(deep breath ... deep breath ... deep breath ... deep breath ... deep
breath)